Ice-cream-center mold



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ICE CREAM CENTER MOLD Filed Sept. 11,.1922

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Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

PATENT j OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. CASSELL, OF VINCENNES, III1\TIDVIA1\1'A,V

ICE-CREAM-CENTER MOLD.

Application filed. September 11, 1922. Serial No. 587,342.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. CAssnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vincennes, in the county of Knox and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream-Center Molds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in molds for imparting fancy shapes or figures to icecream,.generally where an ornamental center of one kind or color is desired in a brick or block or another kind or color of ice-cream.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and efficient mold for the above purpose which comprises a plurality of detachable sections or parts such as sides, 1n' one or more pieces, assembled between end caps, whereby the parts of the mold may be readily separated leaving the center core per fectly shaped and intact.

Another object is to provide means for locking the parts .together before the freezing operation begins to function for that r purpose, thereby avoiding all danger of a side elevation of a mold embodying my invention, the same being adapted for mold ing ice-cream in the form of a slipper-center for a brick or block. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the bar for locking the ends, removed from the rest of the mold. Fig. 4, is an end view of the mold shown in Fig. 1, with the near cap removed and the locking bar in cross section. Fig. 5, is an end elevation with the near cap and the locking bar in place. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a mold, the body of which is in one piece of a shape to produce an ice-cream center of heartshape in cross-section. Fig. 7, is an end view of same with the near cap removed and the locking bar shown in cross-section, and Fig. 8 is a fragment in vertical section on the line 8, .8 of Fig. 7.

In carrying ont my invention I provide a body 0r .Side member 9 made .in a plurality of separable pieces, here shown as two in number designated by the yreference charac' ters 11 and 12 and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and l, or there may be more than two pieces, as theA nature of the design wanted may require, or the side or body member may be formed out of one piece 13, as in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, it being understood that the number of pieces in the side or body member may vary with the design of the core to be molded.

` In addition to the side or body members I provide end caps 14 with marginal flanges forming a recess in each cap to receive the ends of the assembled pieces of the body member and hold them in their proper assembly.

The separable meeting edges of the body member may be joined in any suitable manner, as by lapped joints 15, see Figs. 4: and 7, or by a tongue and groove joint '16, as shown in Fig. 4., but any form of telescoping, interlocking, or lapped joint may be provided for the meeting portions of the body members of the mold.

The above caps when assembled with the body members entering the flanges of and held between a pair of caps frequently come off in handling the lled mold before the cream contained in it is frozen sufficiently to hold them together, and to prevent such a happening I provide a locking bar 17 with end fingers 18, 18 substantially at right angles to the body of the bar. The lingers 18 receive the assembled mold between them with the heads of the mold contacting the corresponding fingers in the manner shown, and the fingers are of such length as to terminate opposite the centers of their respective caps. The bar 17 and fingers 18 are preferably formed from spring strap or sheet-metal, and they are preferably formed with ak longitudinal corrugation 19 for greater strength. On the inside of each fin* ger 18, near its end, is a lug 20 bent out of the metal of the linger, and corresponding indents '21 are formed in the caps to receive said lugs or detente and thereby hold the fingers 1n given and proper contact position best adapted for securely retaining the mold members in their operative positions. The eXtreme ends 22 of the fingers are preferably bent out as shown for easier manipulation n placing and removing the locking bar.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and Wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,.is-

A mold for ice-Cream or the rlike corn-y prising one or more longitudinal body-meinbers open at their ends, caps to elose the ends of the mold having flangesv to receive and over-lap the end portions ot thebod-y members, and a straight bar of strap spring metal having end ingersi-n `the.sa-ine'limer-a1 direction, substantially parallel with eaeh other,'reeeiving the assembled moldbetween them With the ffingers eontaetingzfthe i vcaps and looking the mold together, the bar having a longitudinal` eorrugation yfrom Y. finger to finger and 'toward the ends of the-ftingers, and unoorrugated linger ends which are bent outwardly,l said eapshaving centrally loeated `indentsand the fingers having detents in their'-nneorrngated portions entering the indents to prevent accidental displacement of thetingersi.

VSigned at Vincennes, Indiana, this the 7th day of September, 1922.

VVILLIAML' WV. GASSELL. 

